November 23, 2008
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For years and years my friends and I have been had a Thanksgiving the Saturday before the real Thanksgiving. When we first started it was at my house, then when my friend Dave and his wife Kelli bought a big enough house in 2004, every year since then has been at their house. For various reasons, they were unable to have it this year so I had it again here at my house for the first time in 5 years. It is always a ton of work getting the house ready for such an elaborate party but its all worth it in the end. And this year was no different.
This whole Thanksgiving thing was the brainchild of Dave and I so we both are very big into planning it and making sure we have everything we need. I was talking to him on the phone yesterday afternoon and I told him that I didn’t have any Bailey’s for the coffee. This is how the conversation went.
Mike: “I don’t have any Bailey’s for the coffee so if you want any you are going to have to pick it up.”
Dave: “You’ve got Bailey’s. In fact, you have a lot of it.”
Mike: “No, I’m pretty sure I don’t.”
Dave: “Well I know you do.”So I opened up my liquor cabinet to find 4 bottles of Bailey’s. None of them were full, but I could feel that all of them had some Bailey’s in there, even it it wasn’t much.
Mike: “Ok, I guess I do have Bailey’s. Apparently you know my liquor cabinet better than I do.”
Dave: “Oh, I know everybody’s liquor cabinet better then them.”Flash forward to the party and when it was time for coffee and we busted out the Bailey’s. Jeff mentioned that I should check the date on the bottles because he had a friend who had some Bailey’s that was so old that it was curdled. So, I looked at the dates on our bottles. One expired back in 2006, another one back in 2005, another in 2004 and the oldest one in 2002. That’s right, I had 4 bottles of Bailey’s that were a combined 15 years past their expiration date. Goes to show you how much I drink Bailey’s.
As for the rest of the night, it was great. We had 16 people which is much less then what we normally have, as we have had as many as 38 in years past. Our group of friends have had a rough few months with people’s parents dying and what not, so this was a great way to get together and forgot about all the bad shit that has happened. After dinner many of us were singing and dancing to many Rolling Stones songs if you can believe that. After a while we started playing Rock Band for a couple of hours. Dave and Kelli had given Jt his birthday gift yesterday (his birthday is July 28, better late then never) and it was ACDC Rock Band which we played. Now I’m pretty bad at playing any of the instruments for Rock Band (or anything else for that matter) but have always loved to sing and am kinda decent at it. But, its not easy to sing ACDC, in fact it almost a guarantee headache. Still it was fun though.
Dave and Kelli also gave me my birthday gift yesterday too (my birthday was October 7, again better late then never) and they got me the Seinfeld version of Scene It. Dave, Kelli, Jt and I have long been big Seinfeld fans, so this was the perfect gift. Later in the night some of us played it and had a lot of fun with it. Good times.
Good times usually result in feeling crappy later. After a bottle and a half of wine last night, I’ve felt better. So, that’s the end of this post for now.
